Guard for windows and doors



(No Model.)

A. HEATH.

GUARD FOR WINDOWS AND DOORS.

No. 361,514. Patented Apr. 19, 1887.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED HEATH, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

' GUARD FOR WINDOWS AND DOORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 361,514, dated April19, 1887.

Application filed October 27, 1886. Serial No. 217,343. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern).-

Be it known that I, ALFRED HEATH, of J ersey City, in the county ofHudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Guardfor Windows, Doors, and Stairways, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a guard for windows, doors, and stairways, andhas for its object to prevent children from falling out of the windowsor down the stairways or passing through the doors to which the guard isat tached.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of theseveral parts of the guard, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, andpointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the guard as applied to a window, andFig. 2 a partial plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a section through theoverlapping wire of the guard, illustrating the mode of staying thesame, and Fig. 4 is a front elevation of another form of panel. Fig. 5illustrates a panel formed of single loops.

In describing the construction of my guard I will speak of it only as inconnection with a window, but do not limit myself to that special use,as it is equally applicable to doorways, stairways, and other places.

The guard A is constructed of a single piece of wire of a suitable size,formed in a series of loops, B, of various designs, upon a mandrel, thetwo extreme ends 0 thereof being either bent over from the topvertically downward, as illustrated in Fig. 1, or up vertically from thebottom,and then parallel downward a distance, so as to resemble theletter U, as shown at D in Fig. 5, the said formation of the ends beingmore or less governed by the style of loop employed in the body of theguard.

In the further construction of the guard A the continuous loops, formedas above, are passed one over the other, forming thereby a rigid andsubstantial body, the said overlapping loops at their point ofintersection being then submitted to the action of a die, and pro- As afurther means to secure the said guardin position and prevent it beingraised out of place, screw-hooks h are entered at intervals in thewindow-sill F and turned over that portion of the guard resting upon thesaid sill, as shown in Fig. 1. The screw-hooks h are needed only wherethe intention is to use the guard as a permanent attachment, as theoverlapping loops render the same suffieiently strong for ordinary use,and while great rigidity is attained by the above construction the guardis yet to a degree elastic and expansive.

I have shown in Fig. 4 a section of the guard wherein the wire is bentin diamond shape, and in Fig. 5 another section illustrating theapplication of a series of single loops and the mode of attaching thesame. In View of these figures it will be observed that many differentforms of loop may be employed in the construction of the body, and theapplication of the guard will be readily understood from the foregoingdescription, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings.

1 am aware that a fence composed of a single wire formed into loops isnot broadly new; and I am also aware it is not new to produce a fillingin fences between the posts, consisting of a series of independentmetallic rings held in position, one overlapping the other, between twoparallel riveted bars extending centrally from post to post and at thebottom by staples entering the lower rail, and I do not lay claim tosuch.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A guard for windows, doors, and stairways, consisting of a wireformed in a series of loops and having its ends provided with a IOOscrew thread and nut, substantially as shown provided withscrew-threaded ends and nuts and described, and for the purposes hereinset thereon, substantially as herein shown and deforth. scribed.

2. A detachable guard for windows and the ALFRED HEATH. 5 like,consisting of a single wire formed into a Vitnesses:

series of overlapping loops having indenta- J. F. AOKER, J r,

tions a at their points of intersection, and E. M. CLARK.

